This is definitely a Mario 64 DS type of case cause while there’s so much more to explore in the game compared to the original, including SMB 2 and a really fun side mode in “You Vs. Boo,” there’s one thing that just ruins the game. The entire game is super zoomed in and in a weird aspect ratio, just to push the NES game onto a GBC screen. The GBA NES classics did a similar thing, but at least on the GBA it’s more nes game shaped. On the GBC it’s like a 2x2 screen and it really doesn’t work for this version. You can barely see anything (probably 1/6th of the screen compared to the NES original), and that’s the one and only thing that prevents me from returning to this game.

there’s like 20 amazing games in this collection. I paid $15 for it in 2017 and they still keep adding stuff for free. There’s a reason why Shovel Knight started this big indie revolution. There were games like Cave Story that did what Shovel Knight did but 10 years earlier, however this game really started something. It proved that there was a BIG market for these kinds of games. Shovel of Hope, Plague of Shadows, and Spector of Torment are all must play games. These games aren’t just “oh it (x series) was an nes game”. These are all their own and unique games that you can’t find anywhere else. Don’t let the 8bit indie graphics fool you, this is not nostalgia bait. It’s nearly been a decade since the game has been released, and honestly I don’t know if we would have some other amazing games like Celeste without this.

Easily one of my favorite games of all time. It’s such a nice and cozy game to play for three months straight and then forget about it until your town has turned into a cannibal’s paradise. Usurps every other game in the series with its endless content, including my personal favorite thing in the game, the fishing island that you can rack up 200,000 bells worth of bugs and fish in like 30 minutes, invest them into turnips, and then creating my own capitalist world to sell Tom Nook a house to ask him how it feels now. Fuck.